It was kept this way, he maintains, by large herds of herbivores — aurochs, red deer, tarpans, and European bison.
Paradoxically, Levine maintains, by working so hard to help our kids we end up holding them back.
(Saving enough natural gas to replace a third of the country's oil could be easily accomplished, he maintains, by, among other things, reducing electricity consumption).
Yet, "the Trojan War represents Total War," Alexander insightfully maintains: by the end of the "Iliad," the cumulated grief of doomed Trojans, ordinary men, women and children, "is a match for the heroic and outsize grief" of godlike Achilles.
In the business of soccer, at the level he maintains by winning the English Premier League more seasons than not, he earns his wage several times over with his judgment of when to sell, whom to buy and which members of the club's famed academy to push at the right time into a team followed in more than 200 countries.
Resuming a drive toward disarmament that he had largely shunted aside over the past two years, Mr. Obama will propose trimming the number of strategic warheads that each of the two big nuclear powers still maintains by up to a third, taking them below the 1,550 permitted in the treaty he signed with Russia in his first term, a senior administration official said.
